Some of you probably suffered from this same terrible fate, and were forced to try and search Google on an upside down screen (I could have pulled out my phone and searched for the answer, but apparently I wasn’t firing on all cylinders on this day).

Sob story aside, all you need to is hit Ctrl + Alt + Up on your keyboard. Press Ctrl + Alt + Down to make it upside down again (though I don’t know why you’d want to). Ctrl + Alt + Right and Ctrl + Alt + Left will turn your screen to portrait mode!

This was common knowledge at one call center I used to work for. The security policy was to lock the screen when you were away form your workstation, but people obviously ignored that rule, that is until they came back to their workstation to find their screen flipped upside down. But since it was easily remedied with the shortcut you could just laugh it off and get back to work. Though the more knowledgeable and devious employees would often screw up your mouse settings as well, giving it the trail, slowing it down, and so forth.

Dave LeClair loves games on console, PC, mobile, handheld, and any electronic device that is capable of playing them! He manages the Deals section, writes articles, and does lots of behind the scenes work at MakeUseOf.